University Square! With Melbourne Law School to the south, Melbourne Business School to the east, Business and Economics at Melbourne to the south west, Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences at UniMelb to the west and the main gate Grattan St entrance to the north, it's the perfect spot to take it all in.

Alumna and founder of Robogals Marita Cheng has co-created a new smartphone app that helps vision-impaired people see the world around them. This amazing app uses artificial intelligence to identify and recognise objects and is a great example of how technology can help people have more control over their lives and surroundings.

Congratulations to The Citizen which has been awarded best Australian student journalism publication for 2016 at the Ossie awards!

Our Centre for Advancing Journalism students also took out two more awards with Buffy Gorrilla winning the prize for best audio story of more than 2 minutes and Jack Latimore taking home the inaugural John Newfong Prize for his reporting on Indigenous... View details ⇨

Stuart Greenbaum, Head of Composition at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM) and one of Australia's most widely-performed composers, reaches a milestone birthday this year. As he nears the 50 mark, he discusses music, the meaning of life, and silence.

But the populists ARE the liberals!
They're the ones for freedom of speech, rights of the citizens etc.
This is a battle between liberal populists and left-wing authoritarians who keep calling themselves liberals even as they enact governmental power after power.

This is Deakin Court. The pillars in the middle of the courtyard and at the eastern end are relics saved from the original Gothic Revival style Wilson Hall. The sculptures are by Melbourne sculptor Bruce Armstrong, whose work can also be seen at the National Gallery of Victoria and Heide Museum of Modern Art.

Congratulations to our Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM) alumni - Amir Farid and Lachlan and Ewen Bramble who have just released their latest album as the Benaud Trio​. Check out their version of this 80s classic

Now housing the GSA - Graduate Student Association, University of Melbourne, the 1888 building was once a residential teacher training institution for the Victorian Education Department. Happy weekend everyone!